hunt-business-logic

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Crown Jewel Targets

Business logic vulnerabilities pay highest in platforms where financial transactions, identity verification, and access controls intersect with real-world consequences. The richest targets are:

• E-commerce & payment platforms (Valve/Steam, Shopify) — payment flow manipulation, free goods, price tampering
• Marketplace & gig economy apps (Airbnb, Uber) — identity/verification bypass enabling fraud or unsafe interactions
• SaaS with tiered access (Mozilla Monitor) — bypassing verification to unlock monitoring features without entitlement
• High-traffic consumer apps (Snapchat, Yelp) — rate-limit bypass enabling spam, enumeration, or abuse at scale

Asset types that pay: checkout flows, subscription endpoints, callback/verification systems, webhook handlers, employee/internal portals exposed to the internet, and any endpoint that trusts client-supplied data to make authorization decisions.

Attack Surface Signals

URL patterns to watch:

• /checkout, /order, /subscribe, /payment, /verify, /confirm, /callback
• /internal, /employee, /summit, /staff, /admin — internal pages accidentally public
• /api/v*/payment, /api/v*/notify, /webhook — payment provider callbacks
• Endpoints accepting X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, CF-Connecting-IP headers

Response/header signals:

• Set-Cookie with unvalidated session state tied to cart or order data
• Payment provider names in responses: Smart2Pay, Stripe, PayPal, Braintree
• Redirect chains through third-party payment pages (in-flight data opportunity)
• 200 OK on subscription/verification endpoints with no CAPTCHA or token

JS patterns:

• Hardcoded internal URLs in frontend bundles (/employee/, /staff/, /internal/)
• Client-side price calculation before server submission
• Verification logic that only checks on the frontend (if (verified) { ... })
• fetch('/api/subscribe', { method: 'POST', body: ... }) with no anti-CSRF token or rate-limit token

Tech stack signals:

• Shopify storefronts with draft/unpublished channel pages
• Apps using IP-based rate limiting without session/account binding
• Payment webhooks with no HMAC signature validation
• SMS/phone callback flows that don't verify ownership before enabling features

Step-by-Step Hunting Methodology

1. Map all authentication boundaries. Spider the target. Identify pages/endpoints that serve authenticated content (employee portals, premium features, order pages) and test each unauthenticated. Look for internal pages indexed in JS bundles or linked from robots.txt/sitemap.xml.

2. Identify every verification flow. Enumerate: email verification, phone/SMS verification, payment verification, CAPTCHA, age gates. For each, test: what happens if you skip the verification step entirely? What happens if you replay a valid token on a different account?

3. Test rate-limiting controls on every form. For every POST endpoint (subscribe, login, OTP, search), send 50+ rapid requests. Vary: remove cookies, rotate X-Forwarded-For / X-Real-IP headers, change User-Agent. Check if the server uses IP from headers rather than connection IP.

4. Intercept and tamper with payment flows. Use Burp Suite to intercept every request between your browser, the application, and the payment provider. Identify where price, currency, order ID, or status fields are set. Attempt to modify amounts to $0.01 or currency to a low-value currency. Look for POST-back/webhook endpoints that accept payment confirmation — test if they validate HMAC/signature.

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